RIP abngourmet AKA Alan J. Dover

My dear friend, mentor and bass Obi-Wan, Al Dover passed away last year in August. I found out late November and am still very much in denial.

Al was a kind and thoughtful person, very much invested in leaving everything he touched better than he found it. He was also a retired military veteran and I had the esteemed honor of serving alongside him for his last years in the Army. He was also an incredible cook and culinary professor, when he wasn’t moonlighting as one of the best bassists I’ve had the pleasure of seeing play.

His final gift to me was one of his G1 MM V7s, which is now my main axe. His lifelong mantra was “don’t aspire to mediocrity”. I shall not. Miss ya, buddy.